SF News SF Arts Commission Demands $919 Chairs, Talks Smack About Staples The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee wrapped up its negotiations regarding San Francisco's proposed $8.6 billion spending plan in record time Wednesday night. While negotiations were definitely less contentious than
SF News Mayor Lee's San Francisco Budget Proposal By The Numbers On Monday, SF Mayor Ed Lee presented his proposed two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15 and 2015-16. It now heads to the Board of Supervisors for their approval (or lack thereof). Here
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Breaking: Shots Fired Outside S.F. City Hall Just before 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon, San Francisco Police responded to reports of shots fired outside of City Hall at McAllister Street and Van Ness Avenue. SFPD units on scene at McAllister
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
SF News San Francisco's Homeless Support By The Numbers $167,000,000: What San Francisco spends per year on services for homeless people (described by the Chronicle as people "on the streets, in a shelter or in supportive housing") $458,000: What
SF News San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
SF News SF Comedians Speak Out Against Evictions During Set At City Hall Back in the day, comedians were known to roam the city's landscape offering golden nuggets of wisdom in between fart jokes. Some comedians even made big-time names fir themselves. Luckily, buried like tulip
SF News SF City Workers Rake In Fabulous Annual Salaries Forget Tweetooglebook. The real money can be found working for the city of San Francisco—specifically, the San Francisco Fire Department. Why? Overtime. According to Matier & Ross, "more than 700 San Francisco
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Back From Jail, But For How Long? Though disgraced former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew is home from federal prison (where he reportedly taught yoga; the fun with this guy never ends), he's supposed to head back to county jail.
SF News Another Pedestrian Down: SUV Hit-Run In Front Of City Hall In yet another incident of driver-on-pedestrian violence, an SUV driver rolling down Van Ness Avenue early this morning struck and injured a man in his 50s at a crosswalk in front of City
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deviled Egg News: Willie Brown Is Insane Former San Francisco Mayor turned lunatic Willie Brown stopped by Wayfare Tavern recently. Much to his dropped jaw's horror, the downtown restaurant no longer serves the deviled eggs Mr. Brown so desperately, so
Arts & Entertainment PHOTO: S.F. City Hall Shows Its 49ers Pride In honor of making the 49ers making the playoffs, San Francisco City Hall dons red and yellow (gold?) hues. Fancy. (Photo by Erik Wilson.)
SF News Twitter Rents Out S.F. City Hall For Holiday Party Listening to @dickc toasting to 2013. Proud of Twitter! #celebrate pic.twitter.com/kZdDx57a67— Jessica Verrilli (@jess) December 20, 2013 As if there wasn't already growing feeling that the Mayor was secretly in
SF News Ed Lee's Name Floated As Potential Ambassador To China Mayor Ed Lee is now rumored to be a possible candidate to replace outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, who just announced his resignation. Locke's resignation was apparently unexpected, and just
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: David Finally Gets Hitched Occasional SFist photographer David Lytle and his man got hitched this week. The happy couple and their son celebrated by horsing around outside San Francisco City Hall. Congratulations to all!
SF News Ed Lee's Daughter Will Get Married At City Hall Next Weekend, During Dew Tour at Civic Center Well, this should be interesting. The Mayor's daughter is getting married in the City Hall rotunda next Saturday right in the middle of the skateboard/BMX showcase known as the Dew Tour, which
SF News San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Russian Vodka Spilled At SF City Hall As we mentioned yesterday, there was a protest today at noon in front of City Hall in which some LGBT activists were calling on the mayor to support the boycott of Russian vodka
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Porc De Triomphe: Bacon Bacon To Reopen Back in May, noted pork purveyor Bacon Bacon was forced to close the doors of its Upper Haight/Cole Valley outpost due in part to neighbor's complaints about the "obnoxious" and "acrid" smell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Urges Customers To Attend City Hall Hearing Bacon Bacon fights back against bacon-aroma haters in the hood with this revamped window at their Cole Valley location. Eater notes: "Bacon Bacon's day of reckoning with the Planning Commission is coming up
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Kiss Photo of Friday's gay marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall by Romel Jacinto.
SF News Photos: California's First Gay Marriage In Over Four Years After a too-long wait, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the lead plaintiffs in the Prop. 8 case, didn't waste any more time and finally tied the knot in San Francisco City Hall Friday
